[xml/sgml-pkgs] [PATCH debhelper] dh_installcatalogs: use update-sgmlcatalog in maintainer scripts if available

[Jonathan Nieder]

Daniel Leidert wrote:

> I vote against this patch. It was planned to coordinate things with
> the debhelper maintainer(s) before the final step. If those warnings
> are a problem, I'm going to ask for removal of sgml-base from
> experimental. There is currently no breakage and (except of those
> warnings) also no behaviour change in the SGML/XML core system.

Based on the changelog, it looks like there were a bunch of cleanups
in experimental (e.g., using POD to document things)?

I am not suffering terribly from the version in experimental, or I
would just downgrade.  But I do think, if people are not supposed to
use this, what was the point of uploading it?

Separate from that is that I very much do not want a release of Debian
in which many packages produce that warning.  One way to avoid that
would be

 1. Introduce a version in unstable with both update-catalog and
    update-sgmlcatalog, with neither producing a warning

 2. Keep experimental as is (with the warning).

 3. Once all packages have been updated (wheezy+1, maybe) and it
    seems safe to do it, remove update-catalog.

Step 1 logically comes before step 2.

Another way, for a quicker migration, would be to encourage packages
to use update-sgmlcatalog if it is available and fall back to
update-catalog.  I mention it because that would be a case in which an
update-catalog producing a warning on user systems could make sense
(to make sure the migration happens quickly).  I don't see much point
to that and it sounds like you don't like that option either; just
mentioning it for completeness.

Does that make sense?  Is there any way I can help?

Regards,
Jonathan